"Women were brought up to believe that men……" — Julian Barnes

"Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions."

— Julian Barnes

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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes

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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen:…
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is…
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not.…
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic…
Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the…

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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can… — Julian Assange
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people… — Dan Aykroyd
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word:… — Dave Barry
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before… — Jose Bergamin
I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

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